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“Making Contact” digs into the story beneath the story—contextualizing the narratives that shape our culture. Produced by Frequencies of Change Media (FoC Media), the award-winning radio show and podcast examines the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground, building a more just world through narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the environment, labor, economics, health, governance, and arts and culture.
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Hear two of the nation's brightest and sought-after advertising analysts -- Corey Elliott and Gordon Borrell -- identify the latest trends and make their predictions. This fast-paced podcast runs about 20 minutes and focuses on trends in local media, advertising, and marketing. The show typically touches on three or four topics, occasionally features a guest, and is always seasoned with critical analysis and wit.
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Created by the Global Wellness Summit (GWS), this podcast features thought-provoking conversations with leading voices in the $4.4 trillion global business of wellness who inspire listeners with deep industry insights, rich personal stories and valuable business learnings. Leveraging the vast network of luminaries from GWS, the lively and down-to-earth conversations with host and wellness sector expert Kim Marshall give listeners a unique opportunity to get to know industry icons while learn ...
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This is the Regan Hillyer Show with Regan Hillyer - a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, mindset coach, and global speaker that helps anyone breakthrough to new levels of success in their personal and professional life. The episodes will showcase Regan speaking on her own experiences as well as with leaders, artist and creators who are changing the business landscape and living a life of total freedom and abundance.
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Join Award Winning Media Host, International Best Selling Author, Founder of the Straight Talk for the Soul Global Teleseminar Series & Spiritual Intuitive CARI MURPHY in her intention to create a transformational UNITY COMMUNITY of millions around the world! Following a near death experience in 1997, Cari's mission became clear. She is dedicated and devoted to sharing divinely inspired messages of empowerment, healing and joy to IGNITE THE LIGHT OF YOUR SOUL as we ascend in consciousness du ...
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Welcome to ✨The ELDORA ROSE PODCAST✨- a high-frequency space for the Empowered & Awake Divine Feminine. My name is Eldora. I am an internationally renowned Ascension Master Teacher, Quantum Healer, Abundance Activator, and Shaman :) Over the past decade or so, I along with my Twinflame-Soulmate, Siman, have manifested the most Abundant, Purposeful, and Joyful life that I could not even have imagined in my WILDEST dreams! Only eleven years ago my life was completely different: ✨ I felt so stu ...
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On this week's episode, we speak with Bay Area based comedian Karinda Dobbins about the release of her debut comedy album, Black & Blue. In Black & Blue, Karinda shares personal stories, finding humor in the most ordinary moments of her daily life, including her girlfriend’s arbitrary policy on household pests, the changes hipsters have brought to …
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Are Digital Marketing Services Worth Selling?
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If digital marketing services are used by more than two-thirds of advertisers, why are so many media companies -- especially TV stations -- shunning them? Are they low-margin? Too messy to implement? The hosts dive into the stats and develop what they call the "chiclet theory." Stay in the loop with all things Borrell when you join our ResearchAler…
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East Orosi's Long Struggle for Water Part 2: The Role of Community Utility Districts
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In Part 1 of our series on water in the Central Valley of California we visited a town called East Orosi, which has been fighting for clean water for over 20 years. This week we turn our attention to their sewage system, which is also falling apart. Why has it been so difficult for East Orosi to get clean drinking water and fix its sewage problems?…
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Culture & Spirituality As Substance Use Treatment in Indigenous Communities
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In the late 1990s, psychologist Dr. Joseph Gone, a professor and member of the Aaniiih Gros Ventre tribe, returned home during his doctoral training to the Fort Belknap Reservation in north central Montana. There, he set aside eurocentric concepts of psychology he was learning in school and instead asked tribal members how mental illness is address…
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This Iconoclast Doesn't Mince Words on Today's Mass Media
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With the summer of our discontent brewing, Corey & Gordon discuss the value of nonstop headlines to news media. Could local media rise like a phoenix? They ask a fan club member, retired media analyst and self-proclaimed iconoclast Terry Heaton, to weigh in. Brace yourself for Heaton's unvarnished take.Stay in the loop with all things Borrell when …
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East Orosi's Long Struggle for Clean Drinking Water
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East Orosi hasn't had safe drinking water in over 20 years. The water is full of nitrates, runoff from industrial agriculture, which is harmful to human health. The community has taken action to find a solution, from lobbying at the state capital to working with neighboring towns. And they may finally have one. New California laws, passed in the la…
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Ep 6: The Voice of GOD Spoke to me, and it has changed my life forever - The Royalty Code of Purity ❤
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The Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (Encore)
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Composer, pianist, and vocalist Samora Pinderhughes tells us about The Healing Project. The Healing Project, a fundamentally abolitionist project, explores the structures of systemic racism and the prison industrial complex. This story first aired February 2023. Pinderhughes and The Healing Project takes action towards abolition with forms such as …
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Local Media's Near-Term Fate: Hobby Shop or Rising Phoenix
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Gordon & Corey double-down on their prediction that local media companies are in their "final phase," with many destined to become the equivalent of small hobby shops. But they also see some rising like a phoenix. What's the secret? Here's a hint: The podcast features an interview with the dean of one of the nation's most prominent schools of mass …
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Caring Relationships: Negotiating Meaning and Maintaining Dignity (Encore)
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The vast majority of care recipients are exclusively receiving unpaid care from a family member, friend, or neighbor. The rest receive a combination of family care and paid assistance, or exclusively paid formal care. Whether you’re a paid home care provider, or rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or a family member caring for a l…
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88. Celebrating Global Wellness Day in Portugal and Beyond
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Join us for an “on the road” episode as we celebrate Global Wellness Day’s 2024 theme of "Nature" in two stunning locales in Portugal. We are oceanfront in Cascais and later surrounded by the climate change fighting, biodiversity hotspots that are the cork forests of Portugal. We speak to some of the country’s leading voices in wellness who exempli…
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Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (Encore)
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Inflammatory diseases are on the rise around the world, and when left unaddressed can turn chronic. Now, doctors are finally starting to pay more attention. But why & when does a beneficial part of our immune system turn against us? Raj Patel & Rupa Marya think it has a lot to do with the world we live in. They talk about climate change, ecological…
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Join with me, Regan, as I chat with Tenille Bentley of The Digital Wealthy & Conscious Podcast and we discuss the ignition of the flame 🔥 that sparks the ability to have it all and what that exactly means. Being an energetic match for what you are looking to call into your life. Listen to how we unpack ‘the gap’. The period of time that exists betw…
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Family Matters: What Helps Black Trans Kids Thrive
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Kids are coming out as LGBTQ+ younger than ever before, making their identities more politicized than ever before. Hateful political rhetoric and discriminatory laws are likely contributing to the poor mental health documented among LGBTQ+ kids. In an effort to combat these struggles, researchers are studying what works to keep kids healthy, happy,…
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What's the preferred medium when it comes to business communications? What's the top choice of advertisers when purchasing ads? What do people readily give up as "currency" for accessing content, getting a discount coupoun, or entering a contest? Email! This episode focuses on why email is so pervasive and powerful, yet so overlooked by many in the…
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Family Matters: How Communities Support Trans Kids in Conservative States
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In 2023, Kirin Clawson’s endocrinologist placed a puberty-blocking implant in her arm, a medical intervention that is associated with improved mental health for many trans kids with gender dysphoria. In February, Indiana joined several other conservative states banning this treatment for minors. In the first of a 2-part series, we hear from the Cla…
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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation
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Caste—one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world—is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. The average age of death for Dalit women is just 39. And the wreckages of caste are replicated here in the U.S., too—er…
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Radio's New Leader Brings An Attitude To the Job
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Gordon & Corey ruminate why radio people are so scrappy and seek answers from Mike Hulvey, the newly appointed CEO of the Radio Advertising Bureau. During the interview, Mike reveals a genetic secret that suggests he might be radio's natural-born superhero.Stay in the loop with all things Borrell when you join our ResearchAlert Lists.As always, tha…
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Disclose! Divest!: Behind the Fight Over College Endowments
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As graduation approached this year, students around the country began protests after calls for divestment from Israel were initially ignored by university leadership. The campus encampments were met with physical violence and the mainstream press dismissed the students' demands as naive and immature. But, it turns out that there's a lot we should b…
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What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel's brutal assault on Gaza? And what happens when borders cross living land and communities? We'll dig into these questions in this week's episode with the help of Heba Gowayed, sociology professor at CUNY Hunter College and Gr…
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Beasley Skips the Committee Approach on GenAI, Brings in a Big Gun
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Most media companies seem to be using internal committees to explore Generative AI. Beasley Media Group, however, is thinking differently, engaging an outside expert with a degree in AI from MIT. This episode features an interview with that expert, as well as the Gordon's and Corey's musings on which approach might yield better results.Stay in the …
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The Art of Healing: Finding Strength Through Frida Kahlo
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This week on Making Contact we take a look at one of the most prolific Mexican artists, Frida Kahlo, and how she inspired the Latina artist collective, “The Phoenix Fridas.” “In Confianza, with Pulso” producer Anthony Wallace brings us the story of Thania Betancourt Alcazar. A member of “The Phoenix Fridas,” Alcazar discovered a lifeline in the art…
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Jenny Odell and Discovering Life Beyond the Clock (Encore)
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Have you ever really considered how we view time as a society? From work to leisure to appointments, we schedule every minute of our days, but how often do we think about why we treat time the way we do, our relationship to it, and why we value productivity over all else? This week, we talk to Jenny Odell about the ideas behind her book Saving Time…
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